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With their heavy guitars, angst-filled lyrics, and mumbled vocals Nirvana defined grunge. Their music was raw and powerful. These aren’t qualities you associated with jazz, but The Bad Plus manages to pull off a very cool jazzy cover of Nirvana’s “Lithium”.
“Lithium”
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If you like that, go get their latest album For All I Care
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